Frank Brunner

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Frank Brunner

Brunner at the Vanguard booth New York Comic Convention in February 2008.
Born February 21, 1949 (1949-02-21) (age 62)
Nationality American
Area(s) Artist
Notable works Web of Horror
Dr. Strange
Howard The Duck
Creepy
Eerie
Vampirella
Official website

Frank Brunner (born February 21, 1949)[1] is an American comic book artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Comics

Brunner broke into comics as a horror writer-artist for the black-and-white comics magazines Web of Horror, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. His best-known color-comics work is his Marvel Comics collaboration with writer Steve Engelhart on the supernatural hero Doctor Strange in Marvel Premiere from 1972 to 1973, and in Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts, issues 1,2,4 and 5, in 1974. Other Marvel credits include the anthologies Chamber of Chills, Haunt of Horror, and Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction; the supernatural series The Tomb of Dracula; the swamp-monster series Man-Thing; and the science fiction series Silver Surfer.

Also for Marvel, Brunner adapted Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery pulp fiction hero Conan the Barbarian in the 42-page story "The Scarlet Citadel", and drew many covers for the similar series Red Sonja and Savage Sword of Conan.

Brunner and novelist Michael Moorcock collaborated on a comics adaptation of Moorcock's sword-and-sorcery hero Elric in Heavy Metal magazine. It was reprinted in publisher Mike Friedrich's Star Reach Greatest Hits.

Brunner briefly returned to comics in the early-1980s as artist on the First Comics title Warp, based on the science-fiction play that ran briefly on Broadway in the 1970s. He then wrote and drew the graphic novel The Seven Samuroid (1984), a science-fiction takeoff of the movie classic Seven Samurai.

[edit] Film and television

Brunner moved to Hollywood and began a career in movie and television animation, working on projects for Hanna-Barbera (Jonny Quest), Walt Disney Imagineering (Euro Tomorrowland movie), Warner Bros. (preproduction Batman design) and DreamWorks (Invasion USA). He was the head of character design for the Fox animated series X-Men.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Books

  • The Brunner Mystique (Artist Index Series Volume One) (Hendrik Sharples and Steven R. Johnson, March 1976)
  • Brunner's Beauties (Eros Comix, August 1993)
  • Eyes Of Light: the Fantasy Art of Frank Brunner (Vanguard Productions, 2002)
  • Mythos: The Fantasy Realms of Frank Brunner (Vanguard Productions, 2007)

[edit] Comics and magazines

Interior art (except where noted) includes:

[edit] Marvel

[edit] Warren

[edit] Other publishers

  • Star Reach #3 (also painted cover); #10, 12 (covers only) (1974–77)
  • Adventures of Chrissie Claus #31 (cover)
  • Alien Worlds #6 (cover and interior art, 1984) (Pacific)
  • Brunner's Carnal Delights #1 (cover) (Carnal)
  • Castle of Frankenstein (Kable News)
  • Crawdaddy!
  • Flare #29 (cover) (Hero)
  • Flare Adventures #13, 15-19 (covers) (Hero)
  • Monster Times
  • Quack #1 (cover and interior art) (Star Reach)
  • Red Sonja #2 (cover) (Dynamite Entertainment)
  • Unknown Worlds of Frank Brunner (cover) (Eclipse)
  • Silver Comics #1, 4, 6 (covers) (Silver)
  • War of The Worlds (covers) (Best Sellers Illustrated)
  • Witchgirls Inc. #1-3, 5 (covers)
  • Wild Stars #1-6 (covers) (Little Rocket)

[edit] Art portfolios

[edit] Trading cards (Topps)

[edit] Film

[edit] Live-action

[edit] Animation

[edit] Record-album covers

[edit] Poster prints

  • The Faerie Princess (Dreamweaver Studios)
  • Four Queens Of The Tarot (Color)
  • Dreamtide (Dreamweaver)
  • Go Ask Alice (Dreamweaver)
  • Raiders Of The Lost Egg (Vanguard)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comic Buyer's Guide. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5trAbNQWw. Retrieved December 12, 2010. 

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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